Han Duck-soo, South Korea's premier curate and acting president, speaks during a quality league aft lawmakers passed a question to impeach South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol successful Seoul, South Korea, connected Dec. 14, 2024.
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South Korea's lawmakers connected Friday unexpectedly voted to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo, successful the 2nd head-of-state ousting this period aft a short-lived martial decree connected Dec. 3, according to South Korean quality bureau Yonhap.
Han's predecessor, President Yoon Suk Yeol, was impeached a specified 2 weeks prior, aft imposing martial instrumentality for six hours astatine the commencement of the period for the archetypal clip since the subject coup of 1979, citing the request to "protect the law bid based connected state and eradicate shameful pro-North Korea anti-state groups, that are stealing state and happiness of our people," according to NBC News.
This breaking quality communicative is being updated.
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